Eating Disorder Among Adolescents Angela Dominguez RES/110 May 11, 2011 Dr. Richard Wolodkowicz University Of Phoenix Many adolescents have become obsessed about loosing weight without considering the health problems of dieting. According to the (Eating disorder statistics 2004, 2010) more than half of adolescent girls and nearly one third of adolescent boys use unhealthy weight control behaviors. Eating disorders can affect people physically and mentally and even can lead to dead. In a
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Bulimia nervosa, more commonly known as the binge and purge disorder, it’s a deadly mental disorder that affects 1 in 4 college aged women. This disease affects both the mind and body, and eventually does severe damage to both. The fear of gaining weight and the need to have a perfect body has led many down the self-destructive pathway of bulimia. This is a secretive eating disorder characterized by frequent episodes of excessive eating, followed by self-induced vomiting to rid the body of food.
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disorders. Anorexia nervosa, is where a young girl has an irrational fear of getting fat or gaining weight; in which they will starve themselves to the point of starvation or exercise to the point of exhaustion and their bodies at that point suffer extreme consequences. Anorexia nervosa can cause the organs to shut down, heart failure, and hair loss just to name a few repercussions of this disease. The American Anorexia Bulimia Association (AABA) estimates that one thousand die of anorexia a year. The
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ground of women with bulimia nervosa. This hypothesis has come under much scrutiny and as a result, has been tested and re-tested time and again. Studies have had findings stating everything from, there is no evidentiary support for this hypothesis, to there is a non-specific correlation and yet other studies claim that childhood sexual abuse is a direct risk factor for bulimia nervosa. More recent articles seem to point toward some type of relationship between bulimia nervosa and childhood sexual abuse
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eating disorders. This widespread amount of disorders is not talked about as ample as they used to be. If anything eating disorders have become extremely stereotypical to people in the United States. People assume that only models or “goth teens” have anorexia or obese people only have bulimia, but is that really the case? Anyone can be vulnerable to any type of eating disorder. There are countless types of these such disorders. “Ten of 15 Americans suffer from some type of serious eating disorder” (mirosol)
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Mental Illness Paper HCA 240 5/18/2014 Mental Illness Paper In this paper we will explore the background of Bulimia nervosa, myths, misconceptions, and past treatments. We will discuss the different symptoms, signs, neurotransmitters that may be associated with the illness. The paper will go over the ways that this mental disorder can be treated, and the ways that the environment in which the person may live could have direct effects to the success or failure of their treatment. Describe
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counselor. My main purpose and goal today is your well-being, and see that you better understand your issues and problems you are struggling with on a daily basis of your life. Life is so precious and I hate to see so many others dealing with obesity and anorexia. I want you to understand that there are physiological factors that make us want to eat and factors that make us not eat. Today we will be discussing those factors; I really want you to understand why this is so important to your physical and mental
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Compare/Contrast Essay “Romeo And Juliet” and “Much Ado About Nothing” There are many similarities between Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo and Juliet. Was this Intentional or Accidental? Even though Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy, and Romeo and Juliet, is one of his saddest tragedies, the two plots share many common incidents. Did Shakespeare mean to have these coincidences or did they happen by accident? In both of his dramatic works, the Masque
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Group A consisted of female adolescents with anorexia nervosa. Group B contained female adolescents with bulimia nervosa. Group C consisted of female adolescents with binge eating disorders. This research was in a time span of 1 year and consisted of 562 families with female adolescents from the ages of 14-17. “202 of the female adolescents
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females can be at risk. People of all races can develop this disorder. Binge eaters affect every three women for every two men who have this disorder. Binge eating is considered the most common of the eating disorders, which includes Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa. There is no known cause of binge eating but it is suspected to be linked to depression. Whether depression leads to binge eating or if binge eaters become depressed. The one set of the disorder is unclear. Most people with binge eating
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